Blog | Ceramics, Screen Printing and Joinery
FICA is a workshop in Lisbon where ceramics, screen printing and carpentry are taught. In 10 years of activity, thousands of people have passed through here with no previous experience of the techniques they came to learn.
This blog exists to answer what we are asked most often, before and after workshops. Practical questions, practical answers.
But also the process behind some productions, interviews, among other things.
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Flash Workshop or Ceramics Workshop: which should I choose?
Flash Workshop or Ceramics Workshop: which should I choose? If you come to our site and want to learn how to make ceramics, you'll almost certainly go to two workshops. You'll find the Flash Ceramics Workshop and the...
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Ceramic firing: what happens to the clay in the muffle
Ceramic firing: what happens to clay in the muffle There's one thing that everyone who starts out in ceramics learns sooner or later: firing is unforgiving. You can recover clay that has dried out too much. You can...
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How to choose the right ceramics workshop for me
How to choose the right ceramics workshop for me You've decided to take a ceramics workshop. You've discovered FICA or you've been recommended our workshops. You go ahead and open the ceramics workshops page. But you come across several workshops, and you ask yourself “how do I choose...
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Phases of Clay
Phases of Clay: the process of transforming clay into ceramics Clay is always changing. Before it becomes ceramic, it goes through several phases, some subtle, others irreversible, which result from the relationship between water, time and temperature. From...
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The Endangered Typeface
The Endangered Typeface The Endangered Typeface - Print Edition is a limited edition of numbered serigraphs, printed at FICA Oficina Criativa for Associação Natureza Portugal | WWF Portugal and created by Bar Ogilvy. Last year, on International...
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Rita Teles Garcia da Kroh
Rita Teles Garcia from KROH Ossos do Ofício #1 Rita comes to FICA at least once a month. From April, she'll be coming more often, due to a new workshop. She's the first guest of Ossos do Ofício,...
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Screen printing emulsion: 3 types of emulsion
Screen printing emulsion: 3 types of emulsion Screen printing emulsion is a photosensitive liquid mixture (of varying composition depending on the type of emulsion) which, when applied to a screen printing screen and after the engraving process, creates a matrix...
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What is screen printing?
What is screen printing? Screen printing is a printing process in which ink is transferred to a substrate through a stretched mesh. It is a versatile process that can be used to print on various types of...
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Raclete (squeegee): how to choose?
Raclete (squeegee): How to choose? First of all, a squeegee is the accessory in the screen printing process that helps the ink pass through to the substrate (through the mesh). The squeegee is used...
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Screen printing: 5 applications per number of threads
Screen printing screen: 5 applications per number of threads The screen printing screen (or screen printing frame) is a frame with a very tightly stretched and glued mesh (there are other ways too - see end of article). It is through this mesh...
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Photolithography: 1 (and only) print run
Photolith: 1 (and only) concern It is one of the essential elements in the screen printing engraving process. The photolitho's function is to block the UV light falling on the screen during the exposure process and thus record...